Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over alleged infringement of Java slipped from epic battle to soap opera this week: The relationships between the judge, jury, plaintiff and defendant have become a tangle of legal ambiguity and financial suffering — or is it avarice? The jury deferred to the judge on the extent of Oracle’s intellectual property protections.

First look: Google Compute Engine vs. Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services has been the kingpin of the market ... live beyond the life of the VM and can be connected to multiple different VMs. Google also has three main database storage platforms, including a MySQL relational database named Cloud SQL; Cloud ...12/3/2013 - 2:30 am | View Link

Oracle Versus Google: The Database Kingpin Gets DesperateOracle’s lawsuit against Google over alleged infringement of Java slipped from epic battle to soap opera this week: The relationships between the judge, jury, plaintiff and defendant have become a tangle of legal ambiguity and financial suffering — or ...05/18/2012 - 11:48 pm | View Link

HP moves big data ops to Cambridge“Big data” refers to the proliferation of data types that are too large and unwieldy for traditional database tools to handle efficiently, and it is also a business opportunity that IT vendors — including HP, IBM, Oracle, EMC and Microsoft — are ...01/23/2012 - 2:44 pm | View Link

Google Goes On The Offensive In Oracle FightGoogle just picked up a bunch of patents from IBM to ... the bulk of them have nothing to do with the mobile business, but instead relate to database technology -- Oracle's core business. Like #5937406, "File System Interface To A Database."01/4/2012 - 4:55 am | View Link

The Cloud Computing Revelations of 2010Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp ... company VMware. Google and VMware are also said to be working on products that will provide end-to-end performance visibility of the cloud applications built using the companies’ software tools. Database Goes To ...12/17/2010 - 11:00 am | View Link

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Super Mario 64 HD Remake!—In Unity. Just a couple of days after computer science student Erik Roystan Ross released a free recreation of the first level of Nintendo's 1996 Super Mario 64 in Unity, the game's original creator stepped in to put “No” in “N(intend)o.”
Ross, who released his high-definition version of the Bob-Omb Battlefield for play in a browser, or on a computer running Windows, Mac, or Linux, didn't have any intention of selling the game and made it available for free.
Still, Nintendo sent Content Delivery Network (CDN) Cloudflare a complaint under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) this week demanding that the fan recreation be taken down:
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The massive denial-of-service attacks that have intermittently shut down Github for more than five days is the work of hackers with control over China's Internet backbone, according to two technical reports published Tuesday that build a strong case that government authorities are at least indirectly responsible.
Github officials have said the torrent of junk data pummeling their servers is the biggest they have ever seen.

Arguing that Ohio’s casinos and racinos have not lived up to their original promises on tax revenue, Sen. Bill Coley said it’s time to take away their nontaxable promotional gaming credits. The West Chester Republican said Ohio casino operators have fallen well short of their promise to generate more than $500 million per year for Ohio schools and local governments, and have failed to come close to delivering on the 34,000 promised new jobs.

When the NFL draft starts in late April, Ethan Weisman plans to have plenty of skin — or rather fabric — in the game. Weisman’s Pantheon Custom Clothiers will be providing suits for some of the college athletes waiting to be chosen by a pro team.